Trump Returns to White House -- Removes Mask, Tells Americans 'Don't Be Afraid'
Trump returns to the White House from Walter Reed after three days of treatment. In a staged photo-op, he removes his mask on the White House balcony and enters the residence without it. He posts a video declaring 'Don't be afraid of COVID' and 'I feel better than I did 20 years ago,' contradicting his own doctors who had described him as 'not yet out of the woods.' The event is a deliberate visual message minimizing the severity of a disease that has already killed over 210,000 Americans.
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